• Home
  • ICTs & Lost Revenue
  • FOI requests
  • Interesting Posts
  • In The News
  • Links
  • About
  • Contact
BackTheMAC

Politics & Business

 

Joined up immigration policy in the UK Government

 

David Cameron’s speech on immigration 14th April 2011 ……”So I completely reject the idea that our new immigration rules will damage our economy.”

 

Higher Education Statistics Agency – Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education in the United Kingdom Academic year 2009/2010. The report shows that Computer Science graduates continue to have the highest level of unemployment (14%) of any course 6 months after graduating.

 

Public Accounts Committee report on the Immigration Points Based System published on 17th May 2011 a damning indictment of UKBA management and Government Policy.

 

Third of government website internships 'unpaid'

 

Tax from plumbers helps fund tax free allowances for migrant workers

 

Keith Vaz and winning the argument on immigration but who is arguing for the resident worker?

 

Damian Green speech 02/02/2012 Making immigration work for Britain

 

Wikileaks

 

American Embassy London 2009-07-01 - UK EFFORTS TO MANAGE MIGRATION AS RISING UNEMPLOYMENT LOOMS (C-RE9-00762)

 

MAC chairman professor Metcalf confirms that while many companies used intra-company transfers legitimately and brought workers to the UK for up to 6 months, some workers have stayed for three years, undercutting labor costs and displacing local workers.

 

American Consulate Chennai 2009-03-13 – NON-IMMIGRANT VISA FRAUD - B1/B2 and H-1B are the top two categories for fraud

 

European countries set more realistic minimum pay levels

 

Germany EUR 64,800 minimum salary for non EU migrant workers

Holland EUR 50,183 minimum salary for non EU migrant workers

 

Problems in the USA

 

Video - Obama confronted on H-1B use during Google+ hangout

 

How the U.S Lost out on iPhone work

Obama Economic Plan To Discourage Outsourcing, Reward 'Insourcing'

Overseas Call Centers Target Of Anti-Outsourcing Bill

 

Misuse of US visas may be widespread

Programming jobs fall, despite Labor Department's outlook

A lesson in immigration and offshoring for 2012 hopefuls

Large-Scale Visa Fraud Alleged at Infosys in US

Indian Outsourcing Firms Use H-1B to Displace U.S High-Tech Workforce

The H-1B and L-1 Visa programs: Out of Control in the US

H1B Visas Lower US Programmer Pay

 

In the news

 

CW - Public sector IT staff sees largest cut in 25 years

CW - Cost cutting is still the main reason to outsource IT

CW - Why should I study computer science when the jobs go offshore?

CW - Are UK IT students better off being trained in India?

 

CW - Is offshoring still making students of Computer Science the largest unemployed group of graduates?

CW - The Indian IT suppliers are still on steroids

CW - UKBA publishes 2011 salary rates by mistake – no problem pull them and put the lower 2008 ones back

CW - Indian companies are top importers of IT workers

CW - Half of UK IT professional have received no training in the last five years

CW - Over a quarter of UK IT professionals have had enough

 

DT - Immigration cap loophole sees massive surge

DT - Immigration does keep Britons out of jobs, government committee admits

DT - Graduate gloom as 83 students apply for every vacancy

 

copyright © 2011 Allbureau Ltd